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Item Condition: Collectible; Very Good
1st Edition 1973
It seems to me, Cavaliere, that you
are more than a businessman.'
I'ma Salamander, Colonel . . .You?'
I'ma servant of the State... Except
that I 'm not sure what the State is to-
day and l'm scared of what it may be
tomorrow."
That makes us allies'.
The Salamander is the mostarresting
and important book Morris West has
written.
Against the background of modern
Italy, in the dark underworld of the big
cities, in the high society of politics
and finance, he has set a story of love,
intrigue and violence which holds the
reader spellbound from the first page
to the last.
The Salamander is a legendary beast
that lives in the fire. It is a symbol of
man's survival. It is the code-name of
the Cavaliere Bruno Manzini, a
wealthy industrialist with a colourful
past who fears-as many do - that the
shaky denocracy of Italy may collapse
into totalitarian rule by the Left or the
Right.
It is the device that challenges Colonel
Dante Alighieri Matucci, a senior
official of the Service of Defence Infor-
mation, to investigate the death of a….